Announced earlier Wednesday, Google made a clear challenge to Microsoft by announcing their new project — creating a new operating system, the Google Chrome OS. After launching Google Chrome browser last year, having it lightweight, secured and fast; now, Google Chrome OS will try to take your operating system experience in a different level. As it is an open source project, Google aims as well to deliver lightweight, secured and portable OS which targets to be ported to netbooks which is going popular in the market and of course desktops.
Note that this is not the official screenshot of the Google Chrome OS.
Google Chrome logo credits to Google.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
[ Source: Official Google Blog ]
Since it’s going to be open source, which means it’s free, developers can soon contribute in the developments and upgrading of the said operating system. It is said to be released in the market next year, 3rd or 4th quarter. So, let’s wait it’s preview hopefully later this year or earlier next year.
Chrome OS would be very competitive on Microsoft operating systems. I was thinking that one day, Google would launch an Operating system that would complete with Windows XP or Vista. Google and Microsoft would compete head to head now that Microsft launched its Bing search engine.
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I have installed Chrome OS on one of my netbooks and the performance of Chrome OS is just okay. there is nothing fancy or very special about it. It was just a sort of GUI version of linux or something.
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Chrome OS is just another rebranded Linux GUI, it would be much better if Google came up with an OS that would directly compete with Windows.
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i installed Chrome OS on two of my netbooks. the Chrome OS works great and its loading time is very fast too.